Starting Point: -4 To -5 Diopters
Congratulations, sort of. You have less diopters than many, though it’ll take you a little while to make it back to 20/20.
Which one could say, is kind of good news. So far all the so-called professionals and doctors have been telling you that nothing at all can be done about your shortsightedness. They say suck it up, you’re a failure in the vision department. Give us your credit card, consider yourself lucky we’re here, and buy these glasses.
And then you end up on this page anyway, skeptical ideally, open-minded, hopefully.
Then you start finding out that retail optometry knows that minus lenses cause myopia and that myopia in most cases isn’t an illness at all. Myopia is usually nothing more than a refractive state, meaning that your eyes simply adapted to both strain (from close-up) and stimulus (of the wrong kind, from minus lenses).
Oops. And you may look and find more and more articles on the subject, realizing that you’re neither hopeless, nor broken.
That part isn’t really in question, at least not once you explore a bit of the clinical science and studies that can easily be found on Google Scholar. The real question is, is Cooky VonJakenstein off his regal rocker, or is this particular dirty stock trader and capitalist Schweinehund on to something, with all this talk about reversing myopia?
This is the question. Is endmyopia just more Internet unicorn farming, or is it the real deal?
Spoiler alert, at the very least it’s run by a amusingly deranged creature of the beard.
But whatever. What counts is results, and so let’s look at some results for those who started out just like you:
14 Year Old Reduces Myopia By 0.75 D From -5.00 (Optometrist Confirmed)
An update today from your favorite irresponsible e-mail chaperone. Yes, a Jake's been a bit lagging in posting improvement reports. Let's fix that today with a particularly inspiring one. As you read this one, think no help or support from the parents, no guidance from any optometrist, no BackTo20/20 membership. Just the blog, determination, and the ability to put the various two's and two's together. Here's Anne awesome e-mail: Hats off. Somebody is going to [...]
Reader Mail: A Whole Lot Of 20/20 Gains
We get a lot of e-mails, with improvement reports and thumbs up on the endmyopia process. I want to post every single e-mail of righteous gains individually. Each is well worthy of its own post, celebrate the effort and results. Too many though and we'd be here forever posting them all. So today here is an update post on the improvement e-mails from the last couple days. Read them all, they all should be [...]
Jakey Didn’t Drown (& Will, From -6.50 To -3.50)
The title, part a myopia success story. Will went to Gainesville, came back with all the 20/20 gains. He started with high myopia at -6.50 D and reduced it to almost half that, at just -3.50 D. Just another success story. But wait. Let have a quick story time. Jake vs. the ocean. Jakey's been learning to kitesurf. Sport involving the ocean and a board, like a snowboard of sorts, and a big [...]
Andrea: Optometrist Confirms Myopia Reduction (-5.00 Down To -3.00)
-5.00 down to -3.00. That's a 40% reduction in myopia, and confirmed by the optometrist. Wow. The endmyopia library of individual improvement reports has grown quite impressively large at this point. Spanning years and students from every walk of life, ages from 5 years old all the way to 90 and over, and from all over the world. And these stories are everywhere, from my e-mail (and yes, I saved them all), to the BackTo20/20 support forum (obviously), all [...]
Mina (-6.00): No More Vertigo Attacks! So Happy
Mina made my day today, with an awesome, brilliant e-mail. Mina who was suffering from increasing eye strain and vertigo attacks, and now ... well, read this one for yourself: Hi Jake! Yes I have been enjoying the blog and have been doing very well with it. When I first started reading the Endmyopia blog in September of 2016, I had been suffering from increasing eyestrain and frequent vertigo attacks that I finally attributed to my glasses and contacts [...]
Overnight High Myopia Shock: 5 Year Old Goes From 20/20 To -5.00D!
Imagine, you have a young boy. Everything is all fine and great, boys will be boys. Until one day, that is. One day which is today when he comes running up to you and says, all scared sounding and confused: Daddy, I can't see! Yikes! You're freaking out, naturally. Freaking out and taking the little one to the optometrist as fast as you can. And this is where it all starts. Sit back and [...]